Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.

Grace is goodness.

Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

I know George Burns was a very happy man.

If the wine is not good, then throw it out!

He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Follow thou thy choice.